The concert series will pay tribute to the "great cities of soul music," including Chicago, Detroit, London, Memphis and Philadelphia.

"This year's telecast will showcase the vast impact soul music has had on the 21st century's music and pop culture landscape as our talented and diverse lineup will attest," said VH1 and VH1 Classic's Original Music Production & Development EVP, Lee Rolontz.

Each artist will perform her own hits along with some soul classics, hence Soul Divas!

The Roots will serve as the house band (they do that on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, too!) with Questlove as musical director and the event will benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which works to restore music education in public schools. Good music for a good cause.